In 2018, President Trump cranked up the threat of a migrant caravan. Now he's running the same play with protesters in Portland, and it's not working at all. jonathanchait writes
Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images Donald Trump’s plan for exciting his base during the 2018 midterm elections was to crank up the threat of a migrant caravan. Fox News ran caravan footage on endless loop, and Trump smashed democratic norms by using the military as a campaign prop, deploying it to the border to “defend” against the supposed threat of violence
An administration official recently told the Washington Post the White House “had long wanted to amplify strife in cities,” and that “It was about getting viral online content.” A confession that the president is provoking violent confrontations on American soil in order to seed campaign propaganda would tear apart a normal president, but has already been half-forgotten against the backdrop of a presidency in which scandals of this scale occur several times a week.
But the reason Trump’s tactic fails is that, by deploying troops to fight the anarchists, he broadens the issue into a fight about Trump himself. This inevitably draws more, largely nonviolent protesters, into the streets.
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